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For short days and long walks.

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Holidon't: The 7th Dimension Of Groove

Just got our first dusting o' snow up here. So Happy Holidays everyone!

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**Update** 

Track 9 got doubled incorrectly - One of em should be numbered 29 - Fix it in your music player to look like the above track listing or download the correct version below:

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Hip Hop Suckas: Seventh

Sunset of the Season. Available HERE.

Summer Stash House Groove Party [The Eighth Dimension Of Groove]

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LSD: Long Summer Days [The Ninth Dimension Of Groove]

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Blotto 12: The Island Speaks

After a long wait... the final installment of the Blotto series, available HERE

Preferable MixTape 12: Ahhh... Tijuana Brass

April 1998. Chad, Drew, Nate and I went on a trip to Ohio. Chad and I were to drop Nate and Drew off at Drew's parents before taking off to San Francisco and Olympia. We partied out at Drew's brother Trevor's house, slammed mountain dew at his son's birthday party, flew kites, shot hoops, ate Ohio style pizza, and passed out watching nick at night. Admiring Trevor's wall of cheesy thrift-store LP's I confessed my love for Herb Alpert and just as Chad and I were saying goodbye to those knuckleheads, Trevor ran back inside his house and came out with 10 records, all Herb. They were thrift store duplicates - just waiting to be "passed along." Damn.

Cut to half a year later, I'd moved to Oceanside trying to figure out what the hell I was doing and decided to compile all the good tracks I'd been jamming out at the Wilmont providing a thin layer of Tijuana Brass above Luke and Lisa's summer but probably souring by own personal Herb [my roomate at 3C]. Plus - if you squinted - it put me back at the Wilmont - the party zone - and gave comfort to the days that were starting to fill with ambiguity and loneliness. I needed a master Herb Alpert tape.

I went over to my Grandma's and hooked her record player up to a janky, bone-white, drug store tape deck/amplifier/speaker combo and worked into the wee hours of the morning compiling the f outta that tape. Watched the record button clack off, hopped in her minivan, and took the tape out for a christening in the thin blue predawn rolling along Oceanside Blvd. down the Coast Highway to Cardiff and VGs Donuts.

So here you go. Find your own piece of summer. And enjoy the time we have left.

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Thanks, Trevor!

Blotto 11: The Low Road

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Preferable MixTape 11: Sunset Blvd... 2001 A.D.

Scott was living out in LA. So I made this mix just after we moved to Oakland and worked off what I thought would be the best sound blanket to his waning days in the city of angels. Available HERE

Scott was nice enough to lend the tape so it could be digitized. Thanks Scott!

Preferable Mix Tape 10: No Words? No Problem.

Spring '98. The first apartment. I moved in to the Wilmont with Herb just above Luke and Lisa. One day I was walking out, probably to grab a Jarritos from la grocery especial and passing the second floor I paused by Luke's open door. I nodded and he waved me in. He was in the middle of making an instrumental tape and wanted to go over the track listing. We both spun yarns involving "Green Onions" and reveled in the necessary addition of "Mo' Onions". I mentioned a few Wilmont-centric tracks of choice and brought them down. And while "Frankenstein" was essential to the pre-Wilmont Beach prototype being tested that summer, I do wish I could Doc Brown myself into going hands off the "Chilli Hot" track, even though it was the auditory framework for the type of shenanigans a newly independent choad such as myself was to get into at a place like that. Someone flicked on the radio during its dubbing looking for a game causing a weird blurp of static and dial rolling which got put to tape. After the second side clicked off in that heavy chunk that old decks do, he folded the tape into the track listing and stuffed it into a case, handing it to me saying "Here," and followed it up with something like "Enjoy your summer." And yes, I did. This mix played all summer long through the windows of the living room out onto the 3rd floor deck and over Hillsborough street coming down somewhere across the street in the parking lot of Sub Conscious.

"Here"

Thanks Luke!

Hip Hop Suckas: Sixth

Available HERE.

Blotto 10: Headless / Heartless

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Preferable Mix Tape 9: Jody's Country Tape

It had no name, no case, no information, no identity. It was up to the tracks. And that's really what it should be. All that cool-ass packaging splits when they hang about the floorboards or glove compartment or side door pockets. And when they have no identifying marks... Thus the sticker on the tape and the title of this installment.

Before we headed off on a cross country trip in the summer of 2000, Jody passed this tape along for our journey. It's split between late 70's - 80's on Side A and more of the classic 50's - 60's on Side B. Sure there are some A.C. tracks, but that's what spreads this tape out and fills it's scope. Any stretch of outlaw or broken heart soundtrack is up fer grabs. In a way it plays like wounded country lives livin' high and on the razors edge, on from Eisenhower through Regan... kinda like Brokeback.

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Thanks Jody!

Blotto 9: Winter

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Preferable Mix Tape 8 : Players Ball

Summer '97 Ollie and Brian Rivas threw a Player's Ball. I'm not going to go into it but with a fridge full o 40s anyone who's watched a certain music video knows the level of god-king that bequeath its maker. Suffice to say a good night was had by all and to all a rad night.

Then somewhere in the next year Jessie and Ollie threw one in Winston Salem. Then another at my place at the Wilmont - summer '98. I think another one happened - not too sure - between then and fall of 2000. We were living in Durham for a few months between NYC and the bay area. We had a big house with Margaret and a lot of empty room, in other words the grounds were predestined for party HQ. Among the many throw or blasted or what have you was the (4th or) 5th Players Ball. We, in accordance with with the standards set by the first player's Ball, removed everything from the fridge and packed it with assorted 40s Andre and Red Dagger. We even filled a three foot wide bowl with "Players Punch." and got snaps with our full accounts withdrawn in unconsecutive small bills yo. Which brings me to this tape. I met Daniel working at a bar-resturant in Durham, he managed and bar-tended and dropped knowledge on the reg and thus was known as "The Head" (though he could have been anointed this at a much earlier date). He cut this tape specifically for the party working from his personal vinyl collection and used the order pads for a makeshift tracklisting. Varying staples & crate cuts split by decade on the dual tape sides [for your preferred ballin' timescape] Use only as directed.

Thanks Daniel!

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**Coming Soon - Players Ball '50s and '60s & Players Ball '90s and '00s MixTapes**